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Product

Managed cloud-native next-generation firewall service offered on public cloud marketplaces such as AWS. Eliminate the burden of managing firewall infrastructure and extend industry-leading protection to your AWS environment in minutes. It is available as a cloud instance. It is recorded as supporting application control, central management console, deep packet inspection and high availability. Its record also notes intrusion prevention (ips), ssl/tls inspection and stateful inspection.

Current Version
Cloud · no version
Market
Enterprise
Licence
Paid
Price
Paid · price unknown
Record Created
2026-09-19
Last Updated
2026-10-12

Vendor

Palo Alto Networks was founded in 2005 by Nir Zuk, who had written the first stateful inspection engine at Check Point, and built the next-generation firewall — an appliance that identifies the application in a flow rather than judging it by port number. That product made the company, and it is now one of the largest security firms in the world, listed on Nasdaq, with around 16,000 employees and over 70,000 customers. Its range is organised under three names: Strata for network security and the PA-Series firewalls, Prisma for cloud and SASE, and Cortex for security operations — Cortex XDR for detection and response, Cortex XSOAR for automation, Cortex Xpanse for attack-surface discovery and Cortex XSIAM as the platform it is steering customers toward. Unit 42 is its threat intelligence and incident response arm. What appears in this index is the endpoint and firewall end of that portfolio. Its endpoint agent is sold as part of a platform rather than on its own, which is worth knowing when comparing its price and its test results with a standalone product's. Vendor page →

Country
United States
Headquarters
Santa Clara, United States
Year Established
2005
Customers
70K organisations
Users
100M users
Revenue
$11.5B (2026)

Platforms

Cloudnative

Target Market

Enterprise primary

Capabilities

Stateful Inspectionkeynative
Intrusion Prevention (IPS)keynative
Intrusion Detection (IDS)Not known
SSL/TLS Inspectionkeynative
VPN GatewaykeyNot known
SD-WANNot known
Application Controlkeynative
High Availabilitynative
Deep Packet Inspectionnative
Central Management Consolenative

3 of 10 not yet known — not recorded, which is not the same as not supported.

Specifications

Firewall TypeCloud

4 other specifications for this category not yet known.

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummarySubscriptionnot statedno recurring chargeNot known

Versions

Not known

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

Not tested This product does not appear in any test run CSI holds. That is not a low score.

Certifications

FedRAMPModerate1 activeFR1913470600

Change History

This record was created 2026-09-19. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-10-12Certification addedCertified: FedRAMP (Moderate)evidence
  • 2026-10-09Pricing plan addedPrice: subscriptionevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedCentral Management Console: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedDeep Packet Inspection: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedHigh Availability: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedApplication Control: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedSSL/TLS Inspection: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedIntrusion Prevention (IPS): built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedStateful Inspection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-20Pricing plan addedPrice: price on requestevidence
  • 2026-09-20Platform addedRuns on Cloudevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedSold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product createdNew product, listed in Network Firewallevidence

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